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Rails DeveloperBloomfire

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Our ideal candidate is a Ruby on Rails enthusiast who?s anxious to dig into a cloud based platform development position. Back of the stack oriented, but can work front to back end as needed. The selected candidate will add to our existing development efforts in building our web applications for our internal and external customers. We are looking for someone who is keen on using Rails, Javascript and HTML/CSS standards to build clean, easy to use user interfaces, and not scared to wander into the world of mobile web browsers and cloud-based applications.

The Bloomfire team is talented, energetic and collaborative. The office environment is fun and challenging.- The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker able to understand business goals and product requirements, and translate those ideas into creative, innovative, and functional development concepts.
Responsibilities

Collaborate with design team to accomplish goals
Use agile work processes
Discuss high level concept of features with Designer and Product Manager prior to wireframe development
Develop features using test driven development methodology
Ensure regularly passing robust test suite
Conduct manual testing prior to every deployment to ensure bug free implementation and desired behavior (yes, IE too)
Identify bugs and fix properly though developing appropriate test
Deploy new software at regularly scheduled time (bi-weekly deployments with weekly iterations)
Monitor system use and scale appropriately to achieve the goal of 100% up time
Ensure features are delivered on time as estimated
Have a presence in the developer community
Provide first line technical customer support and triage
Distill and communicate customer feedback to product manager and design team

Qualifications

A degree or equivalent in computer science (3+ years experience)
Experience with e-commerce, media (video), and web 2.0
Great attention to detail
Strong analytical and problem solving ability
Ability to work in a collaborative team environment
Ability to communicate clearly in writing and speech
Mastery of the following tools/languages
Ruby on Rails
Test::Unit/MiniTest/Rspec/Cucumber
HTML/CSS
HAML/SASS
Javascript/Coffescript
jQuery/Backbone.js

Bloomfire is based in Austin, TX, where an amazing team of talented, charming, and helpful people work around the clock to make it great. Together, we create the workplace that we always wanted (socks optional). Shipping Product 5 - 20M RaisedInvestors:Austin Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Silver Creek VenturesAll Jobs:at Bloomfire

Ignite Results. Together.
Bloomfire's easy-to-use enterprise knowledge and collaboration software enables people to efficiently share and leverage group expertise.
With rich analytics and strong content creation and curation tools, we connect people with experts, facilitate social interaction, and amplify knowledge and power teamwork at new levels.
According to IDC, employees spend an average of nine hours per week searching for information. Gartner says that traditional knowledge management misses the point that knowledge resides with people and is difficult to access without collaboration and context.
Our mission is to simplify knowledge management by unleashing the knowledge that is currently locked away in people's heads, personal email accounts, and file repositories. Bloomfire solves the following mission-critical business problems:
Sales and Marketing Enablement
Customer Service and Support
Onboarding and Training
Bloomfire's customers are business professionals who work in training, IT, marketing and sales in medium to large-size organizations. There are more than 250,000 Bloomfire users worldwide. Try Bloomfire for free today.
Founded in 2010, the company is headquartered in the silicon hills of Austin, Texas. Bloomfire has received 20 million in Series A funding from Austin Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Silver Creek Ventures. Meet the leadership team at http://bloomfire.com/leadership-team.
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